Watch as little Dean learns to play well with telemarketers. It’s not going very well…
| Dean: "Hello?" Telemarketer: "Hello, may I speak to the registrant of givetech.com?" Dean: "Yes, I’m the technical and administrative contact for givetech.com, how can I help you?" Telemarketer: "Yes, are you Dean Paxton?" Dean: "Yes." Telemarketer: "Fine Mr.Paxton, I represent Domain Solutions a domain notification service. I have some very important information about your domain that I’d like to fax to you. Do you have a fax number that I can send this information to you?" Dean: "No, I don’t have a fax machine here, I’m afraid." Telemarketer: "Do you have another location or a fax service that I could fax this to you?" Dean: "No, I don’t. Can you e-mail the information to me." Telemarketer: "Is your e-mail address ‘paxton@ais.org’?" Dean: "Yes." Telemarketer: "I’m afraid that our mail servers are down and not available right now." Dean: "I can wait." Telemarketer: "Well, sir our mail servers will be down for several weeks and this is very important for you and it concerns your domain givetech.com. You need to read it and take action immediately." Dean: "So your mail servers are down but, you are a reliable domain registrar?" Telemarketer: "No we are only a notification service." Dean: "But, givetech.com is not scheduled to expire for several months, is there some problem with the domain?" Telephone Spam Artist: "No, we are only a notification service. Do you have a pen?" Dean: "Yes" Telemarketer: "Go ahead and call our 800 number 800-XXX-XXXX. Give them this security code so that they know that you are the authorized representative for givetech.com, XXXXXX." Dean: "So, you are not a representative of Verisign or, Network Solutions but, there is some vital information about my domain that I need to be aware of?" Telemarketer: "Yes, that’s correct. Can you read back to me the 800 number that I gave you, just to verify that I gave it to you correctly?" Dean: "No" Telemarketer: "No? Did you write the number down, sir?" Dean: "No" Telemarketer: "No? Why not?" Dean: "You didn’t ask me to write it down, you asked me if I had a pen. I would have written it down if you… " CLICK!!! Dean: "Hello?" Dean: "Hello?" |